Activities

For our money, perhaps the most underrated winter activity in Yellowstone National Park is snowshoeing. Here's a look at one of the most spiritual experiences possible in America's Oldest National Park.

West Thumb Geyser Basin is one of the most unassuming thermal areas in Yellowstone National Park. It features no major attraction like Old Faithful or Morning Glory, nor is it particularly active. Containing no continually erupting geysers, West Thumb is mostly a collective of hot pools and springs, varying in size and shape.

Looking to combine education and lodging at Yellowstone National Park? The Yellowstone Association Institute is now offering a variety of packages combining accommodations in Gardiner with educational tours run by expert naturalists.

There are many things to do in Yellowstone, most of them related to the great outdoors. Many of the activities you can do in a lot of places -- hiking, biking, fishing, boating, horseback riding, sightseeing, picnicking -- but you are doing them in Yellowstone’s incomparable landscape and in one of America’s largest areas of wilderness. That changes things. For example, people catch trout in all kinds of streams. Not many people catch trout within sight of a spouting geyser.